Category Archives: Hearne_Christopher

Being in management is no walk in the park… Sometimes you have to make difficult decisions based on your opinion of what’s right or wrong, and you need to have the courage of conviction to stick with those decisions when … Continue reading →

By some measure it was the oldest college sports rivalry west of the Mississippi… Missouri versus Kansas in football, basketball, you-name-it was a lifetime avocation for many sports-minded locals. And while MU dropped out of the formal proceedings this past … Continue reading →

Just how relevant was the Walt Bodine of the past 30 years? Outside of a handful of aging Boomers and NPR listeners from the arts and academia worlds – not very, says Stanford & Sons main man Craig Glazer. “I … Continue reading →

What’s in a word? Plenty if you happen to speak French. Which is why when Buick debuted its 2005 LaCrosse all heck broke out among our French speaking neighbors to the north. Because in French, “LaCrosse”  translates into – to … Continue reading →

Face it, things haven’t been the same at the outdoor amphitheater known as Sandstone since Live Nation pulled the plug several years back and the title sponsor went from powerhouse Verizon to relatively puny Cricket. Must see alt rock shows: Remember … Continue reading →

Friends, radio listeners, fellow party types… I come here to bury Walt Bodine, not to praise him. The evil that men do – especially media types – lives on long after them, while the good is often obfuscated. So I … Continue reading →

“I got a buddy who says, you can’t come to Arkansas without getting ‘hogified.’” Overheard at the most disorganized Starbucks I’ve ever seen  in Hot Springs, Arkansas. Yep, it’s Spring Break and I’m living large in the land of the … Continue reading →

I’m not gonna spell it out for you guys right here, right now, but… Trust me on this, the alleged reason behind the Power & Light District’s bailing on the KC Strip trolly line, effectively hanging it out to dry … Continue reading →

Don’t look now but the KC Strip may be poised for a comeback… The three year-old entertainment trolly just blew taps a few days back, but point man Bill Nigro already has formulated a plan to dig it back up … Continue reading →

One of Kansas City’s biggest entertainment days was a bust… Ugly as it usually gets, this year’s St. Patrick’s Day in Kansas City was a huge letdown for the bars and restaurants that normally cash in big time on the … Continue reading →

He was a gentleman, a wildman, a journalist and a scholar,  now he’s gone… Former Kansas City Star books editor John Mark Eberhart has lost his battle to cancer and passed away.

In a shocker, top Kansas City Star ad gun Tim Doty is leaving the newspaper… Here’s Star publisher Mi-Ai Parrish‘s missive to the flock: “It is a bittersweet day for Our Star as I announce that Tim Doty, Advertising VP … Continue reading →

Just how how flying were Kansas City’s High Flying Leiweke Brothers? As high as it got back in the heady days of the early 1980s here in the Cowtown. Baby Boomers were mostly in their 20s and 30s back then … Continue reading →

 Concerning Tim Leiwike ‘s swift departure from AEG… First a little history about the Pied Piper of Kansas City’s Sprint Center. In the early 1980s Leiweke parlayed a hoopla rich but cash strapped indoor soccer club – the Kansas City … Continue reading →

You win some, you lose some… Today Coffee Wonk owner Micah Riggs won a big one. For two and one half years the 30 year-old Midtown businessman has been battling prosecutors and Kansas City Police who busted him for allegedly … Continue reading →

And now as they say, the rest of the story… It’s hard to do a major league hit piece on somebody without getting the other side of the story. That’s what one would think, anyway. Yet that’s exactly what the … Continue reading →

One good fire deserves another… And in the case of the East Bottoms music Mecca  known as Knuckleheads Saloon, a fire that damaged the clubs new $33,000 outdoor sound system, will be followed by the club’s biggest bill ever. “I’ve … Continue reading →

It’s not nice to break the  First Commandment… Especially when it causes blurred vision and physical discomfort to others. Yet that’s exactly what Dickinson Theatres did this past week in sellout-after-sellout at Union Station‘s spanking new “Extreme Screen” movie theater. … Continue reading →

The last thing Kansas City needs right now is another high profile fire after JJ’s… Yet that’s exactly what went down around 8 p.m. last night at Knuckleheads Saloon in the East Bottoms. That was the talk going around this … Continue reading →